There are many examples of "reversed shots" in TAGS. Some were probably
accidental, and some were done on purpose.
For example, when Andy takes Karen crow-shooting, he takes a shot at a bird
that's flying overhead and misses. Then a moment later he fires at another one
flying in the other direction and misses that one as well. If you look
closely, you'll see that it's the very same footage, they just flipped it over
so it would look like 2 different birds. That was obviously much easier (and
cheaper) than having the camera crew wait around all day hoping that a bird
would happen to fly by in the direction they wanted.
Another example is in Divorce, Mountain Style. When Andy pretends to have
something wrong with his shoe, they stop for a minute, and Barney rides by on
the horse. The shot of Barney is reversed, but it was probably done
deliberately. I expect they shot all the scenes with the Darling family on one
day, and shot all the scenes of Barney on the horse on a different day. Then
later in the editing room, they had to reverse some of the "horse" scenes so
they would match with the direction the other characters heads were facing when
he rode past them.
Another reversed scene occurs when Andy talks with "Tex" in Runaway Kid (in the
living room, near the end of the episode). Some of the shots of Tex are
backwards, but again this may have been done on purpose. Perhaps they shot the
boy's scenes first, then when it came time to shoot Andy's scenes the director
decided he wanted Andy to be sitting on the other side of the room, so they had
to flip some shots over so the boy would be facing the right direction. Then
again, it may have just been accidental.
Paul
>>>Hey, Mayberry friends. This is for the Mayberry "techies." There are at
>>>least two episodes which have scenes that are reversed or mirror
>>>images....There may be more, but how and why did this happen? I'm thinking
>>>maybe poor editing, but there was very little poor work in TAGS production.
>>>I'm sure someone has an idea, so help me out.<<<
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